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Lecture vs Lyceum - What's the difference?

lecture | lyceum |

As nouns the difference between lecture and lyceum

is that lecture is (senseid) a spoken lesson or exposition, usually delivered to a group while lyceum is a public hall designed for lectures or concerts.

As a verb lecture

is (senseid)(ambitransitive) to teach (somebody) by giving a speech on a given topic.

lecture

English

(wikipedia lecture)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (senseid) A spoken lesson or exposition, usually delivered to a group.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=The stories did not seem to me to touch life. […] They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture , with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.}}
  • A berating or scolding.
  • (obsolete) The act of reading.

    • Verb

    (lectur)
  • (senseid)(ambitransitive) To teach (somebody) by giving a speech on a given topic.
  • To preach, to berate, to scold.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Gary Younge)
    • , volume=188, issue=26, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution , passage=The dispatches […] also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. Having lectured the Arab world about democracy for years, its collusion in suppressing freedom was undeniable as protesters were met by weaponry and tear gas made in the west, employed by a military trained by westerners.}}

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * lecturer

    Related terms

    * analects * lectern * lection * lesson ----

    lyceum

    English

    (wikipedia lyceum)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A public hall designed for lectures or concerts.
  • (US) A school at a stage between elementary school and college.

    • Quotations

    ;public hall * 1854 , *: At a lyceum , not long since, I felt that the lecturer had chosen a theme too foreign to himself, and so failed to interest me as much as he might have done. * 1875 , , New York Edition 1909, hardcover, page 414 *: In the autumn he was to return home; his family - composed, as Rowland knew, of a father, who was a cashier in a bank, and five unmarried sisters, one of whom gave lyceum lectures on woman's rights, the whole resident at Buffalo, N.Y. - had been writing him peremptory letters and appealing to him as son, brother and fellow-citizen.